Hi
Was asking the same question to gentoo users that can speak/read
bosnian/croatian/slovenian but didn't get any answer and I hope I'll get
one koz am writing in english now

Here my problem: I can write and use bosnian/croatian/slovenian letter
like : čćđ but when I open documents that where writen in one of these
languages I get question marks ( or some odd letters ) instead of these
letters ( see above ).
Any ideas why and how to fix this ?

To my_nick:
Change encoding ?? Where... cos changing in KDE control center
didn't help and in apps that I use. Tryed with "bs" in /etc/cr.conf and
no go ! Damn ... Same for XF86config !

To steveB:
Tryed with Kwrite "nope" but as I said when I save docs all those
letters are again changed to question marks or some very odd signs.
Email client are complaining too...if I use these letters I get msg that says:
Some letters could not be saved and if you save them you'll gona lose them.
Thunderbird is the name of the email client! No problems with browser though ! Any other suggestions

I can understand slovenian ..no problem...
I did all that was explaind on that link but still in kde I cant save
text writen in my language. Does it have to do with that I installed
KDE while I had ( KEYMAP="no-latin1" and CONSOLEFONT="lat0-16" )in rc.conf?? Damn ...this is pis... me off !

first - if i got this environmental variables stuff right - "KEYMAP=" and "CONSOLEFONT=" in /etc/rc.config don't affect x11 in any way. they are both terminal console settings only.

so, this leaves us with setting right the /etc/profile and the /etc/X11/XF86Config. to my knowledge these should be only ones concerning x11 (font) localisation.

could you paste both of them here?

also, which fonts are you using in kde - mine works fine with bistream vera sans (part of media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera package) and ms arial (part of media-fonts/corefonts package) font families. which version of xfree are you using - i remember having similar problems (but with keyboard) with one of pre 4.3 versions...

Its has been a while since I promissed to write what happend.
Well here it is. NO WAY. It just don't work. Why ? I have no idea why !
I can use "our" letters in consol but the minute I change to nano or what
ever text editor I get eather ????? or some other ODD letters.
I even switched to 2.6 kernel in hope that this would be fixed but NO.
I can use our letters in browser but thats it.
Thanks

I added nls to my make.conf and Iæm gona paste what I have in kernel regarding nativ language support

Quote:

# Native Language Support
#
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737=y
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852=y
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865=y
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_936 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_950 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_932 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_949 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1250=y
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1251 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2=y
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_13 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_U is not set
CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y

The console programs aren't all able to deal with central European characters. But KWrite should work all right (just tested), IF you set the encoding to ISO-8859-2 before you save it and after you load it again.

KDE in general should deal with our characters without any problems, and that has been my experience from the early 1.9alpha days.